egret
(noun) any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
Source: WordNet® 3.1
egret (plural egrets)
Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season.
A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament.
Synonym: aigrette
(botany) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle.
(obsolete) The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
• Geter, greet, reget
Source: Wiktionary
E"gret, n. Etym: [See Aigret, Heron.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea, or Herodias, egretta); the great egret (A. alba); the little egret (A. garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret (A. candidissima). A bunch of egrets killed for their plumage. G. W. Cable.
2. A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.
4. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A kind of ape.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
